Home at last

Staff at the Scottish Council for Single Homeless have finally returned to their offices in the Cowgate after being made homeless by the major fire in Edinburgh on 7 th December.

Although the charity's offices were undamaged, Council Safety Officers refused entry until demolition work had been carried out. SCSH staff re-located to temporary office space and have attempted to maintain services to members as best they could.

Communications Co-ordinator, Tom Roberts, comments:

"We are delighted to be back in our Cowgate offices. Our staff have worked very hard to maintain a normal service but have faced a great many challenges.

There is certainly something ironic about a homeless charity being homeless itself but we have actually been quite lucky. The difficulties faced by SCSH are nothing compared to those faced by the businesses whose premises were destroyed."